Jesus says look to Daniel ( Part 5 )

At the end of Daniel's writings in chapter 9, Daniel is given a vision of the last seven years of this age.  In Chapter 9, verse 24 it talks about 70 weeks that are decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make a end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy, and to anoint the holy place.  It says that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince, there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks. From the time that the decree was made, until Jesus the Messiah was cut off, was seven and sixty-two weeks of years.  This equals sixty- nine weeks of years, or 483 years.  Daniel saw Jesus being cut off.  Daniel saw Jesus the Messiah on the cross.  By Jesus being cut off, on the cross, He was the atonement for iniquity, He made the end of sin, He forgives transgression, and He brought in everlasting righteousness, He anointed the Holy Place with His own blood.  This leaves one more week of years left, or seven years.  Daniel was shown the vision of those seven years.  If it is already accomplished, then why are there still seven years left of sacrifices.  The reason is because Israel's sacrifices were required for the atonement for sin and until the end of age, they can still try, under the law, to earn salvation.  The problem is, to be found righteous under the law, you have to be guiltless to every do and don't in accordance to the law.  This is impossible for man.  The only man to be able to acheive this was Jesus and this was because he was concieved by the Spirit of God.  He was born sinless.  Not like all the rest of us who were born from the seed of Adam, causing us to have a sin nature.  Jesus was the only man able to fullfill all righteousness and that is why we can now have eternal life and enter heaven.  If we except what Jesus did on the cross for us, then Jesus becomes our righteousness and we are able, because we are now in Him, to pass from death into life.  Jesus is the vehicle that takes us out of the kingdom of darkness and into the Kingdom of Light.  As long as Israel refuses to acknowledge that Jesus is their promised Messiah and chooses to continue to strive under the law, then they can still try until the end of the age.  Right now they need Jesus' protection more than ever. Calamity is about to befall them. The time of Jacob's trouble is going to begin half way through the seven year period that is soon to begin. It is very importent for all those in Israel to know, if Israel won't acknowledge Jesus as a nation, then the people there and throughout the world should acknowledge Him individually for their own Salvation.  The end of the age is drawing near.  This time of trouble will not just end in Israel, but it will begin in Israel and spred throughout the world.  So don't gloat over Israel's calamity, for your only hope is also in Jesus.  For when He comes to put an end to those who are destroying the earth, you want to be with Him.  To finish this up, in Chapter 9, verse 26 and 27, Daniel wrote,

                    (26)".....and the people of the prince who is to come (the anti-christ) will destroy
                    the city and sanctuary.  And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there
                    will be war; desolations are determined.(27) And he will make a firm covenent
                    with the many for one week (7 years) but in the middle of the week
                    (after 3 1/2 years) he will put a stop to the sacrifice and grain offering; and on the
                    wings of abominations (detestible things) will come one who makes desolate
                    (causes horor), even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured
                    out on the one who makes desolate." 

After Daniel saw these things, he wrote in Chapter 10, that he mourned for three weeks.  If you have not yet read any of the previous bloggs, you can read more about Gods plan to give you eternal life.

Peace to you.

Jesus says look to Daniel ( Part 4 )

Again looking to Daniel, as to the signs of the end of the age, as instructed by Jesus, in Mathew chapter 24.  In Daniel's writings, Chapter 9, Daniel is now in a supplication mode after seeing the visions that he was shown.  He now in verses 6 -16, confesses the short comings of Israel and acknowledges that he understands why this will befall Israel and cries out for forgiveness.  He then prays to God to take action for His own sake because of the City called by His name.  Verse 13 is telling, when Daniel says,

                    " As it is written in Moses, all this calamity has come on us; yet we have
                    not sought the favor of the Lord our God by turning from our iniquity and
                    giving attention to Thy truth."

Jesus is the Truth.  Remember, by now Daniel has seen in one of his visions the resurrected Lord on His throne and one like the Son of Man.  Daniel saw Jesus, and all that he had perceived in his religious mind,  had been transformed to understand that reality was way beyond what he could have perceived by his earthly religious practices.  He then knew the plan of God's salvation for Israel and overflowing to the gentiles,  was a sacrificed and risen Lord, that was rejected by Israel when He came.  He now understood that by their rejection and reluctance to acknowledge Jesus as their Lord, has lead to the calamity that Daniel saw befall Israel in the end times.  So whether you are of the line of Jacob or a gentile, please know that reality is way beyond what we may perceive by our earthly religious practices.  That the simplicity of the Truth may contain more wisdom than the confusion of man's attempt to please God by their religious practices.  When all is said and done, true religion is summed up in this: Jesus stands outside the hearts door and knocks, and if anyone hears His voice ( every time you hear this word it is His voice ) and lets Him in; He will come into your soul and make you a New Creation, born of above.  You can read previous blogs to get more detail on this.  Peace to you.